Box-lid holder.



PAT-ENTED MAR. 10, 1903.

0. JACK. BOX LID HOLDER. v APPLIUATIQN FILED NOV. 28, 1902.

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INVENTOI? ATTORNEY I Wkly/gags.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES JAGK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN H. SCHMEDING, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BOX-LID HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,652, dated March 10, 1903.

Application filed November 28, 1902- Serlal No. 133,053. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES JACK, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Box-Lid Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in box-lid holders or supports; and it consists in the novel construction of holder more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a cigar-box, showing my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the holder detached. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a top edge view of the holder, and Fig. 5 is a front face view thereof.

The object of my invention is to construct a holder which will efiectively support in an open position and at any angle the lid of a box, the invention being specially applicable to cigar-boxes, the holder being further provided with means for securing thereto a tag or card bearing any suitable advertising matter or other inscription, as will better appear from a detailed description of the invention, which is as follows:

Referring to the drawings, B represents a box, and L the lid thereof. Adapted to be slipped or passed over the terminal edge of the lid is a holder, preferably stamped from a single piece of metal and composed of a front wall 1, a rear narrower wall 2, folded parallel thereto, the latter having disposed along the lower edge thereof the wings 3 3, from which are deflected the forwardly-projecting lips 4 4, and a central flexible tongue 5, extending from the bases of the wings 3 to a suitable point beyond their outer edges. Punched from the face or front wall of the holder are a series of clips 6 for the retention of a suitable advertising-card 0.

As seen in Figs. 1 and 3, the holder is passed over the terminal edge of the lid L, the lips 4 4 confining the holder to the base of the lid, said lips engaging the lower or hinge edge of the lid and the tongue coming in contact with theback of the box, and thus limiting the swing of the lid rearwardly. The tongue 5 being flexible can be bent to any degree, whereby the angle to which the lid may be permitted to be swung can also be varied, such angle depending upon the character of the display intended to be made by the vender. As best seen from Fig. 2, the wings 3 are separated from the tongue 5 by recesses 7, the purpose of the latter being to permit the bend.- ing of the tongue without disturbing the lips 44 from their engagement with thelower edge of the lid.

While the present device is specially designed for cigar-boxes, it may be used in connection with boxes displaying any other character of goods.

It is apparent that I may depart from the details here shown without afiecting the nature or spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is Abox-lid holder made of one piece and comprising a plate having a front wall, and a rear wall folded parallel thereto, wings disposed along the lower edge of the rear wall, forwardly-deflected lips carried by the wings, a central flexible tongue located between the wings and separated therefrom by suitable recesses, and extending a suitable distance beyond the wings, the parts operating substantially as, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES JACK.

Witnesses:

EMIL STAREK, G. L. BELFRY. 

